Home Budget Tracker - helps you manage day to day spending. Use it to input receipts, track account balances, stick to your budget, and reconcile statements. Designed to be used by individuals and couples on the go at any stage of life.

Income Spending Simulator - projects the course of your financial life. It is useful when considering career changes, major lifestyle choices and retirement (how soon and how wealthy). For numbers oriented people it can be fun to play with as it is designed to be open-ended. The compare mode shows you what a specific change would have on cash flow, asset appreciation, and ending net worth.

New Loan Refinance Amount - how much you want to refinance, typically the current balance, but you can adjust if needed.

New Loan Interest Rate - the interest rate for your new loan, you want this to be as low as possible.

New Loan Term - how many years the new loan will last for.

Refinance Cost - what the bank will charge you to get into the new loan, common when refinancing a home.

The typical purpose of refinancing is to:

Get a lower interest rate! That will lower your payment and also very importantly save you money over the life of the loan (since less is going to the bank).

Lower your total out of pocket for the life of the loan! This is computed in the bottom right corner of the results table. A green value is good, meaning you will save money overall with the new loan. A red value means the new loan is costing you money.

Things to consider when it comes to loan refinancing:

A lower monthly payment is often a positive benefit of consolidating several loans into one, but it may come with a longer term and higher total interest costs.

Increasing the duration of a loan (which lowers the payment) can come with consequences. For example, if you go with a 7 year loan on a car just so you can make the payment 'work' you may find that a longer loan term will make the payment less, but it will drastically increase the total cost of the loan. That would make the car even less affordable over time. While a loan has an outstanding balance the clock is ticking on the interest. The bank likes it that way. The longer the duration of the loan, the more that clock ticks. A longer duration loan can provide flexibility in the form of a lower minimum payment if you are allowed to pay ahead on the loan without penalty.

If you are able to consolidate loans into a home equity loan or line of credit, you may be able to get a tax deduction on the interest.

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